Two quick facts:

1. Today, August 31st, 2007, is Karl Rove’s last day working at the White House, as he heads off to spend more time with his family. [I’d love to be a fly on the wall at that office farewell luncheon. Will anyone will run out to the grocery store to get a cake? And if so, who?]

2. Astronomers at the University of Minnesota announced last week that they had found a Mysterious Hole in the Universe. [Kudos to Joel Achenbach for bringing this to many people’s attention in his Achenblog.]

The timing of this discovery of a huge dead spot in the universe, apparenly devoid of matter (dark or regular), heat, and light - and almost certainly, love, hope, kindness and caring - came so quickly on the heels of the White House announcement regarding Karl Rove’s departure from the Bush Administration, that I thought:

This can’t be a coincidence. What’s Karl got to do with it? What’s he up to now?

So, I managed to acquire a copy of data containing information on the “hole” and processed it through our own 10thcircle Augmented Reality Telescope and Data Unlock Master System (ARTDUMP), and found something amazing amongst the pixels.

See for yourself:

The Void in the Universe, the Hole, the Emptiness, looks like - Texas.

[Go ahead and say it, 2001 fans: “Oh my God, it’s full of Texans!”]

Now, it all becomes clear.

Karl is preparing to retire to this TexaVoid - free of Distractions from pesky Democrats, Congressional Subpoenas, reporters, and the Constitution of the United States - to write his history of the George W Bush White House, to build the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Thought Fortress, to prepare the Texas Void as an appropriate home for mass arrivals in January of 2009, and to ponder alone in the dark, considering his next moves.

So when you look up in the sky tonight, after Karl’s gone to his spatial Hole on the Range, remember:

He’s out there. And he’s watching and planning.

And after his time in the Darkness, he’ll be back.

bc